Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1887-07-14
w. G. II. u. DEPARTMENT.
For God, and Home, and Native
Land"

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father, Difference; To- Your mother
conduct that will make her proud o
you' to yourself, respect; to al
men, charity.--Hrs. Balfour.
The National w. c. T. U. Treas
urer, Miss Esther Pugh, has mad,
an extended and successful trip West
to Nevada, California, Arizona anc
New Mexico, organizing new un.
ions, and encouraging all within hel
reach -Er.
While i'll Chicago we had the
pleasure of calling on Mrs. G. b.
Buell. and entering with her into
what she termed her sanctum sancto.
rum. She read to us portions of a
letter just received from Miss Pneh.
What is called her extended and
successful trip west, involved at
times thirtysix consecutive hours of
stage riding. AT one time she found
on her arrival at mail station that
her letters, to which she had looked
forward with so much pleasure had
been sent on eighty miles further.
to lady to whose care they had
been consigned. We who are spared
such hardships and privations should
work just as enthusiastically in our
own towns where there may be Just
as much need of work if we could
but realize it.
Mrs. Hers question at the Fair
mont convention, although there
was no time for public discussion.
set many lady to thinking just
what our duly as Christians NAV be
to the fallen. 1t is possible that
even for cultured women there is a
moral law paramount to our ideas
of the social law. The question is
this: Ought Sabbath School
teacher, who takes into her class a
misguided though now a penitent
girl, to ignore this girl when she in
vitcs her Sabbath School class to
meet ut her own homer" The chair
ruled that while it is perfectly prop
er to invite all to Gods house. we
may discriminate at pleasure with
regard to our own homes, and adj
ded that the surest sign of the girls
pcnitence was to be found in the
fact that she would not desire social
recognition.
Perhaps the greatest hindrancc to
the reformation of any girl is the
consciousness that if she has asso-
cIates they must be among the low {;
, that her former acquaintance are to
ignore hei, One could hardly be
expected to stand, who has Christian
influences, around her only on the
one day of the week when Gods
house would be open for her asso-
citation with the good.
"Shall mortal man be more lust
than his makerw 1t is well for us all
that there is One who has said: 81,
even | am He that blotteth out thy
transgressions for mine own sake.
and will not remember thy sins"
Mrs. Hers question was a hard
one to answer, but if the poor girl
who was least out" were our own.
we should feel that for seven DAYS
in the week she would need the
very best ofsocial and moral influ-
ences and that so long as her heart
yearned for the companionship of
the pure and the good, she was
really pcnitent. Christianity is not
something to be folded up and laid
away with our Sunday clothes, but
Tor seven days in the week it shou' d
be living principle showing itself
IN Christly deeds and words. We
are reminded of little story: A
small boy who had begun the study
geography, was drilled on the shap
OF the earth preparatory to a great
examination. The teacher took
from his pocket a round snuff box
which he held up as an object les
son. 1t Glanced that the teacher
carried 4 square snuTbox on Sun.
days which had not escaped the no.
ticc Of the small boy. When the
momentous day came and with il
the important question; What +.
the shape Of the earth!" the lad re.
piled. Square on Sundays and
round all the rest Of the week"
A revival of pure and undefilcC
religion in the earth will do more
toward settling the great question,
involved in the various department,
Of w. &. +. u. work than all IN,
conventions and resolutions put TO
gether without it. The saintec
I Finney once said fine had strength
Il body to 90 through the churches
again, instead Of preaching TO con
vert sinners, he would preach {,
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